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On this day in 1716, Nuestra Se?ora de Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches Mission was founded by the Domingo Ram?n expedition in a village of the Nacogdoches Indians. Father Antonio Margil de Jes?s was in charge of the mission, which was abandoned temporarily in 1719 and became the first Zacatecan mission to be restored by the Marqu?s de Aguayo in 1721. Although the Nacogdoches mission was generally unsuccessful in its goal of converting the local Indians, it provided an important presence to offset French influence. It was permanently abandoned in 1773. In 1779 the deserted buildings formed the nucleus for the settlement of Nacogdoches.

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